Step 8: Final Assembly

Step 9: Enjoy the Video

Lets start off by saying that I am a noob to micro controllers like Arduino. After looking through instructables for a while I saw the things that arduino could do. That is when I realized that I had to get one and learn the whole process of programming. So having said that I will now move onto my first instructable build.

UPDATE!! IF YOU HAVE UPGRADED TO ARDUINO 1.0 THE WAVE LIBRARY WILL NOT WORK!!! I AM CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR A FIX TO THIS. IN THE MEAN TIME PLEASE USE THE OLDER VERSION OF ARDUINO SOFTWARE OR IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THE FIX PLEASE POST!!

I decided to create a singing pumpkin display for Halloween. I got the idea from http://www.instructables.com/id/Singing-PumpkinsParallel-Port-Relay-Box/ I did't have a parallel port but I had an arduino, sound shield and lots of patience. I used the song "This is Halloween" from Nightmare Before Christmas, wrote the code and built a relay board. I will go over how I did this later. Even though it took a lot of work the final result is well worth it! Video is posted in last step.